CfP: “Perceptions at street level: Centring lived experience in accessibility and transport justice research” CL6 and CL7 Workshop
A call for abstracts for the joint workshop of NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) and Cluster 7 (Social and Health Issues) which will be held at the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 7-8 December 2026.
Abstracts that centre subjective experience, perception, and meaning-making as analytically productive objects of study in accessibility and transport-related health and social research. Submissions are particularly welcome from peri-urban, suburban, and rural contexts, from research that foregrounds care, vulnerability, and justice, and that use citizen science (participatory or co-produced) research approaches. Topics include:
- Perceived accessibility: How individuals cognitively and emotionally experience ease of access, distinct from objective measures. Abstracts might examine perception-behaviour gaps, or how spatial and social context shapes what people feel is within reach.
- Perception of vulnerable users: How cyclists, pedestrians, older adults, disabled people, children, and caregivers are perceived by planners, drivers, and fellow users, and how those perceptions shape infrastructure provision, street-level interactions, and policy priorities, including risks of paternalism or misrepresentation.
- Everyday lived realities and travel experience: Work that considers the texture of travel (e.g. waiting, uncertainty, exposure, fear, fatigue, and pleasure).
- Mobility of care: Abstracts reframing mobility through the lens of care as a social practice and ethical obligation. This includes how care destinations are poorly served by accessibility planning, how caring mobilities are disproportionately borne by women, low-income households, and those in peripheral areas, and how transport system design enables or undermines the health of those who provide and receive care.
- Accessibility for whom?: Justice-oriented investigation of whose accessibility gains are prioritised in investment decisions, how benefits are distributed across space and social groups, and whether dominant frameworks account for the access needs of care-dependent and spatially or socially peripheral populations.
- Rural and urban lived experience: Specific challenges of low-density areas, such as car dependency, service absence, long distances to care and social infrastructure, and the compounding of transport disadvantage with age, disability, and income. Abstracts might address informal and community transport, the experience of isolation, or how peripherality shapes perceptions of both accessibility and belonging.
- Accessibility models: Integrating accessibility models with perceived accessibility for vulnerable population/transport users.
If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, to (see details in pdf) before 7 August, 2026. The notification of abstract acceptance will be distributed 4 September, 2026.
See the full details of the workshop and call in the following pdf:
Organising committee:
Hannah Hook, Cluster 7 co-chair, Aalto University (Finland)
Shaya Vosough, Aalto University (Finland)
Dominic Stead, Aalto University (Finland)
Mansi Garg, Aalto University (Finland)
Benjamin Büttner, Cluster 6 co-chair, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
CL 4/6 Workshop: “Empowering Transitions to the X-Minute City”
CfP: “Empowering Transitions to the X-Minute City” CL4 and CL6 Workshop
A call for abstracts for the joint workshop of NECTAR Cluster 4 (Urban Mobility Transitions) and Cluster 6 (Accessibility) which will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 14–15 September 2026.
Achieving sustainable urban mobility is a central challenge for contemporary cities, closely linked to climate action, social inclusion and urban quality of life. However, mobility systems can only become truly sustainable if everyday activities are organised at short distances. Physical proximity is not merely one option among many forms of sustainable mobility; it is a foundational condition that enables walking and cycling, reduces reliance on motorised modes, frees up public space and supports more inclusive urban environments accessible to people of all ages and abilities.
This workshop focuses on how empowerment-oriented approaches can help overcome car-dependent lock-ins and support sustainable mobility grounded in proximity.
In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers, planners, practitioners and industry
representatives on the theme of empowering transitions to the x-min city. The workshop is back-to-back with the consortium meeting of the UNLOCK15 project (https://unlock15.eu/), focussed on empowering citizens and local authorities to unlock barriers.
Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
- New narratives and compelling stories inspire change in urban mobility.
- Evidence of new mobility cultures among young generations.
- The role of proximity-centred accessibility conditions in sustainable transitions.
- Modal shift and behaviour, promoting sustainable transport modes.
- Equity, fairness, and social issues, addressing urban inequalities.
- Multilevel governance and stakeholder collaboration.
- Governance structures supporting transformative capacity.
- Citizen involvement in mobility projects.
- Innovative solutions and experimentation in mobility.
- Stakeholder engagement.
If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, to (see details in pdf) before June 15, 2026. The notification of abstract acceptance will be distributed June 30, 2026.
See the full details of the workshop and call in the following pdf:
Organizing committee
Cecília Silva, University of Porto (Portugal), NECTAR Cluster 4 Co-chair
Benjamin Büttner, TUM (Germany), NECTAR Cluster 6 Co-chair
António Ferreira, University of Porto (Portugal)
Cauê Rios, University of Porto (Portugal)
Maria Eduarda Cavalcante, University of Porto (Portugal)
Beatriz Versiani, University of Porto (Portugal)
Olivier Bonin, Université Gustave Eiffel (France), NECTAR Cluster 4 Co-chair
Ahmed El-Geneidy, McGill University (Canada), Cluster 6 Co-chair
Karst Geurs, University of Twente (Netherlands), NECTAR vice-chair
CL6 and CL8 meeting on “digital and physical accessibility
**EXTENDED** CfP: “the future of accessibility – integrating digital connectivity with physical proximity” CL6 and CL8 workshop
The Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment (DECivil) of Insituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, through the research centre CERIS is organizing a joint workshop with Cluster 8 (Information and Communication Technologies) and Cluster 6 (Accessibility) of NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers).
The meeting will take place in Lisbon, Portugal (18-19-June 2025). This meeting will bring together researchers from different disciplines and countries in a friendly environment to debate recent developments in the study of digital connectivity as one of the three pillars of accessibility (along with (physical) proximity and mobility).
Therefore, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Telework’s impact on travel behaviour
• Telework’s impact on residential and firm location
• E-commerce, last mile delivery and retail accessibility
• The role of socioeconomic and built environment variables in ICT adoption; spatial heterogeneity and social imbalances
• Accessibility indicators integrating digital (e.g. telework, e-shopping, telemedicine, banking services, e-government) and physical accessibility
• New mobility services, shared mobility hubs, and their inclusion on accessibility indicators
• Network connectivity and accessibility
• Modelling digital and physical accessibility
• Impacts of digital accessibility in land use/transport planning and its integration into planning policy
• Avoidance of physical mobility due to digital solutions and integration with physical proximity in the 15-minute city.
We seek an open discussion about each presentation. Young starting researchers are encouraged to deliver a presentation. Colleagues interested in presenting a paper are kindly invited to send an extended abstract of a maximum 700 words by email to João de Abreu e Silva (jabreu@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) and Rui Colaço (r.colaco@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) by 31 January 2025 15 February 2025 at the latest. Please indicate the title, author(s), affiliations, corresponding contact, and three keywords. A maximum of three bibliographic references is allowed.
Please see the updated call for abstracts below:
Special session at the mobil.TUM 2024 conference in Munich
Please find the call for abstracts here: CfP-NECTAR-MunichXmobilTUM_15minuteCity_Roadmap
NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) at the mobil.TUM 2024 conference
NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) is organising a special session at the mobil.TUM 2024 conference in Munich, Germany, 10-12 April 2024. The topic of the session is “The Roadmap for Shaping the ±15-Minute City: Proximity-centred Accessibility in Practice”. Deadline for abstracts is 20 November.
See for details the call for papers here:
CL 6 Workshop on “The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new formats of shopping, work and transport”
The Department of Transport and Regional Economics of the University of Antwerp and NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) are organising a workshop “The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new formats of shopping, work and transport” in Antwerp (Belgium), 12-13 October 2023.
The deadline for the NECTAR Cluster 6 workshop on “The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new forms or shopping, work and transport”, taking place in Antwerp on 12- 13 October 2023, has been extended to June 14. Topics of interest include the impact of ICT, e-commerce and new mobility services on accessibility and travel/mobility relations. See the call for papers for more details. See for details the Call for Papers below.
The Organising Committee:
Joris Beckers, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium)
Elnert Coenegrachts, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium)
Ann Verhetsel, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium)
Benjamin Büttner, Cluster 6 co-chair, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Juan Carlos Martín, Cluster 6 co-chair, University of Las Palmas GC (Spain)
Karst Geurs, NECTAR chair, University of Twente, the Netherlands
CL6 Workshop: “The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new formats of shopping, work and transport”
The submission deadline is 31 May. Further details can be found here.